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Working hard, hardly working with Grace Beverley: the science behind career success with Dr Grace Lordan
No full textMy guest today is Dr Grace Lordan, Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at LSE and the author of recently published Think Big, Take Small Steps and Build the Future you Want, which is all about how to create a framework that will move you towards your goals. Her academic writings have been published in international journals and she currently advises the UK Government as a board member on the Skills and Productivity Board. I first met Grace when we were guests on the Going for Goal podcast by Women’s Health talking all things procrastination. I was fascinated by her take on these topics, and I am thrilled to have her on today
Grace Aguilar’s historical romances
No full textPhDMy dissertation looks critically at Grace Aguilar’s historical romance novels and short
stories, and investigates English writers’ uses of history in early- to mid-nineteenth century
fiction. Shifting the current critical emphasis on Aguilar’s Jewish texts, I
have analyzed the ways in which Aguilar revises the genres of the national tale, the
gothic romance, and the medieval romance in order to demonstrate her participation
in the construction of nineteenth-century domestic values.
In Chapter One, I introduce to critical debate Aguilar’s juvenilia, relying on
unpublished manuscripts and novels published only in the twentieth century to
establish the origins of Aguilar’s interest in history and historical writing. Locating
Aguilar’s narrative style in the early nineteenth-century national tale, I show that as a
child Aguilar envisioned the English and Scottish nations as a family, making
domesticity both a private and a public—a female and a male—value.
Chapter Two focuses on Aguilar’s use of history to express nineteenth-century
domestic ideals in her version of the gothic romance. Deploying the setting of the
Catholic Inquisition in Spain and Portugal, Aguilar writes gothic tales that unite
Jewish and Protestant gender values. She makes heroic the Jewish female martyr to
suggest not only that nineteenth-century Protestants and Jews share similar domestic
principles, but also that Jewish women could be seen as ideal models for Protestant
women.
Finally, in Chapter Three I explore Aguilar’s participation in the nineteenth-century
medievalist tradition by reflecting on her revision of nineteenth-century literary
idealizations of the Middle Ages. In these short stories, Aguilar fictionalizes the
sixteenth-century European chivalric ethos, looking critically at the role of women in
court society at the end of the Middle Ages. Deploying the tropes prevalent in
popular nineteenth-century anti-medievalist fiction, Aguilar debunks celebrations of
the Middle Ages by showing how chivalry is antagonistic to nineteenth-century
domesticity
Note from Grace Nichols to Joseph R. Goodman, July 23, 1942
No full textNote from Grace Nichols to Joseph R. Goodman: "Joe: One of the really big objection to Pinedale as I see it, was the fact that it was one of the few centers - possibly the only one - that flatly refused to grant freedom of worship. Buddhist and other non-Christian groups were forbidden to hold services of any kind. This seems not to have been generally known, but Calvin and Grace Cope had this report from Eddie and Gordie's parents in the conversation held with them prior to your visit, and was, I believe, verified by the camp administration in course of a conversation regarding whether or not to the people would be permitted to have their Bibles since they were in Japanese. The answer was that Bibles in Japanese or otherwise would be allowed but nothing else in the Japanese language. I use past tense in speaking of Pinedale because it is being moved at the present time. All former residents of Oregon and Washington to Tule lake and the balance to Poston. Turlock is in process of moving to Gila. Lincoln's letter to Dr. Palmer is still in process of being copied but will try to get it in the mail tomorrow - GN."Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Jews and gender in British literature 1815-1865.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the variety of relationships between Jews and gender in early
to mid-nineteenth century British literature, focussing particularly on representations
of and by Jewish women. It reconstructs the social, political and literary context in
which writers produced images and narratives about Jews, and considers to what
extent stereotypes were reproduced, appropriated, or challenged. In particular it
examines the ways in which questions of gender were linked to ideas about religious
or racial difference in the Victorian period.
The study situates literary representations of Jews within the context of
contemporary debates about the participation of the Jews in the life of the modern
state. It also investigates the ways in which these political debates were gendered,
looking in particular at the relationship between the cultural construction of
femininity and English national identity.
It first considers Victorian culture's obsession with Rebecca, the Jewess created in
Walter Scott's influential novel Ivanhoe (1819). It examines Rebecca's refusal to
convert to Christianity in the context of Scott's discussion of racial separatism and
modern national unity.
Evangelical writers like Annie Webb, Amelia Bristow and Mrs Brendlah were
prolific literary producers, and preoccupied with converting Jewish women.
Particularly during the 18'40s and 1850s, evangelical writing provided an important
forum for the construction and consolidation of women's national identity.
Grace Aguilar's writing was an attempt to understand Jewish identity within the
terms of Victorian domestic ideology. In contrast, Celia and Marion Moss, in their
historical romances, offered narratives of female heroism and national liberation,
drawing on the contemporary debate about slavery.
Benjamin Disraeli's construction of a "tough version of Jewish identity was a
response both to the contemporary stereotype of the feminised Jew and to the debate
about Jewish emancipation. It also drew on the virile ideology of the Young England
movement of the 1840s
Health consultation, W.R. Grace exfoliation facility : Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
No full textabstract: The W.R. Grace facility in Phoenix, Arizona, received vermiculite concentrate from the Libby, Montana, vermiculite mine. W.R. Grace Company has owned and operated the Arizona site since 1964. In 1964 W.R. Grace purchased the company that had previously occupied the site and, following the relocation of its vermiculite exfoliation furnace from Glendale, Arizona, began processing vermiculite concentrate and marketing it under the Zonolite® brand. The objective of this health consultation is to evaluate exposure pathways and potential health effects in those persons who, between 1964 and 2002, may have been exposed to Libby asbestos as a result of vermiculite concentrate processing activities and waste materials from the W.R. Grace exfoliation facility in Phoenix.Under cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-24)
Grace Halsell
No full textFan letter to Halsell for Soul SisterBradtenton, Fla.
March 23, 1971
Dear Miss Halsell,
I would first of all like to tell you that I enjoyed your book yet was disappointed at the end to find it so short. I’m doing a report and would like very much a picture of yourself as well as when you were black and now have retained your original color. I have two interpretations of how you looked, the picture of the paperback showered a bronze coloring yet a picture of the hard back book showed a greytone coloring and any pictures of your journey would be gratified.
I am interested particularly in your life now, has anything been greatly changed with the publication of your experiences as a black woman?
What color were you when you went in that beauty shop, noted in the prologue? How often did you bathe in Harlem? What all did you carry to dress in Harlem and in the South? How did you return from the South? What were the feelings of your family when they were told of your experience? What is the name of the novel and book that you are now working on?
I would like also any address I could use to communicate also with the author of Black Like Me, John Griffin.
Yours truly,
Letha Perkins
P.S. Any information would feel would be benefiting to my report
New thermosphere neutral mass density and crosswind datasets from CHAMP, GRACE, and GRACE-FO
No full textWe present new neutral mass density and crosswind observations for the CHAMP, GRACE, and GRACE-FO missions, filling the last gaps in our database of accelerometer-derived thermosphere observations. For consistency, we processed the data over the entire lifetime of these missions, noting that the results for GRACE in 2011–2017 and GRACE-FO are entirely new. All accelerometer data are newly calibrated. We modeled the temperature-induced bias variations for the GRACE accelerometer data to counter the detrimental effects of the accelerometer thermal control deactivation in April 2011. Further, we developed a new radiation pressure model, which uses ray tracing to account for shadowing and multiple reflections and calculates the satellite’s thermal emissions based on the illumination history. The advances in calibration and radiation pressure modeling are essential when the radiation pressure acceleration is significant compared to the aerodynamic one above 450 km altitude during low solar activity, where the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites spent a considerable fraction of their mission lifetime. The mean of the new density observations changes only marginally, but their standard deviation shows a substantial reduction compared to thermosphere models, up to 15% for GRACE in 2009. The mean and standard deviation of the new GRACE-FO density observations are in good agreement with the GRACE observations. The GRACE and CHAMP crosswind observations agree well with the physics-based TIE-GCM winds, particularly the polar wind patterns. The mean observed crosswind is a few tens of m · s−1 larger than the model one, which we attribute primarily to the crosswind errors being positive by the definition of the retrieval algorithm. The correlation between observed and model crosswind is about 60%, except for GRACE in 2004–2011 when the signal was too small to retrieve crosswinds reliably
Attunements to grace in the writings of Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson
No full textShort Abstract: This thesis addresses how God’s grace – i.e., abiding presence to and action in creation – can be found operating in the writer, the writing, and the reader of fiction. In my introductory chapter, I propose that great literature, even self-consciously non-religious literature, can serve as a propaedeutic to religious attention, attuning the reader of words to God’s gracious presence in and through creation (the Incarnate Word). I assess this proposal by looking at the fiction of writers Virginia Woolf (an agnostic) and Marilynne Robinson (a confessional Christian). Good literature, like other art forms, can serve as a field of ‘play’ (Spiel for Gadamer) where an author helps her reader become conscious of the ‘natural attitude’ (Husserl) of his relationship to the world of objects and states of affairs in the text, and thereafter in the world around himself. To do so, I adapt Husserl’s phenomenology of intentionality to propose a ‘phenomenology of literature’ which includes resurrecting the purportedly ‘dead’ author. I draw out the theological implications of this phenomenology with the help of Nicholas of Cusa and Jean-Louis Chrétien: creation is the locus where the divine Author ‘unfolds’ (explicatio) God’s gracious presence, appealing to creatures who are always-already enfolded (complicatio) in the foregrounding activity of God. The creature then becomes ‘attuned’ to God’s gracious call, so as to make a theological return (reductio) to God beyond the ‘text’ of the world. In like measure, a text world unfolds from the creative vision of the author, appealing to and directing her reader’s intentional gaze. The text becomes an heuristic tool for the reader’s intentional attention: when a reader ‘brackets’ his natural attitude to the world and ‘descends’ into the text, the unseen author is able to train her reader’s intentional gaze empathically, to see the pluralities in the text as the author has framed them. In response the reader can accept or reject the author’s intentional framing, but he cannot ignore it. I argue that the literary descent-ascent is always-already enfolded in creation, which itself unfolds from the life of God. Hence when the reader ‘ascends’ from the text back to the world around him, his intentional attitude to the world has been inflected – however imperceptibly – by the intentionality of the unseen author. This descent-ascent movement, theologically speaking, prepares the reader of creation to thematize his ‘unformed attunement’ (Rahner) both to the divine Author, and to the intersubjective communities (literary as well as historically religious) in which such thematizing takes place.
The strength of this methodology – a theological engagement with literature grounded in intentionality – depends on what William Lynch calls the descent into the concrete particulars of literary texts. To that end, I analyze the works of non-believer Virginia Woolf and those of believer Marilynne Robinson, to test the merits of my proposed theological framework. Both writers deftly probe language and genre boundaries, disrupt uncritical acceptance (or rejection) of institutional faith, and engage in creative wondering and wandering ‘away from home.’ Such fiction is thus a locus theologicus, where belief and unbelief interact, interrogate one another, and challenge the reader to deeper theological reflection. New aspects of characters, and competing voices within texts, move the reader’s attention from parts to a sense of the whole, and back again. Hence Woolf and Robinson cultivate in readers what I term a katholic imagination (kath’holou, “regarding the whole” of reality). Such an imagination fosters a psychological openness to growth; a willingness to take seriously unattended, unbidden, or unwelcome elements of reality, including the experience (or absence) of divine grace. God plays ‘away from home’ by unfolding (explicatio) God’s very self into finite creation (the Incarnation), so as to make creation’s very enfoldedness (complicatio) conscious to creatures. Hence it is Christ – playing in ten thousand places – whose descent into created particularity attunes us to God’s grace. This grace is operative beyond the usual registers and instrumentation of theological discourse, and so the attentive theologian must engage with literature, among other disciplines
But I Could be Marble
No full textGrace Miholic is a sophomore and a double major in French and English with a concentration in literature. She’s been writing poetry since the seventh grade, and her dream is to one day publish a book of all her poems. She’s looking forward to writing more and becoming a published author
Dislocació i escriptura topogràfica a I is a Long-Memoried Woman de Grace Nichols
No full textI is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), primer poemario de la autora guyanesa Grace Nichols, le valió el Commonwealth Poetry Prize, el reconocimiento de la crítica y la posicionó como una de las nuevas voces del Caribe en la diáspora. En el presente trabajo se explora el estado dislocado en que vive la protagonista de este libro, esclavizada y arrancada de su Africa natal, y cómo éste se evidencia y subsana a través de la relación con el nuevo espacio que se habita. Para ello, se analiza cómo Nichols construye una mirada paisajística que se expresa en una «escritura topográfica» en la que lenguaje y paisaje se funden.I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), first poetry collection by Guyanese author Grace Nichols, was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and stablished its author as one of the critically acclaimed new voices of the Caribbean in diaspora. In this article, we will explore the dislocated state of this book protagonist, enslaved and torn away from her natal Africa, and how this state is expressed and repaired through the relationship with the new inhabited space. In order to do so, we will analyze how Nichols constructs a landscape view that is expressed in a "topographic writing" in which language and landscape merge.I és a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), primer poemari de l'autora guyanesa Grace Nichols, li va valer el Commonwealth Poetry Prize, el reconeixement de la crítica i la va posicionar com una de les noves veus del Carib a la diàspora. En aquest treball s'explora l'estat dislocat en què viu la protagonista d'aquest llibre, esclavitzada i arrencada de la seva Africa natal, i com s'evidencia i esmena aquest a través de la relació amb el nou espai que s'habita. Per això, s'analitza com Nichols construeix una mirada paisatgística que s'expressa en una «escriptura topogràfica» on llenguatge i paisatge es fonen.Fil: Galettini, Azucena. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina
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